Bubba And The Ragin’ Cajun Talk Politics And Populism At Truman Day
Posted on May 15, 2008 at 10:12 pmR. Neal sits down with Ragin’ Cajun James Carville shortly before his speech at Knox County’s Truman Day Dinner for an exclusive interview. The pull quote:
When Franklin Roosevelt said the captains of industry and Wall Street barons hate me and I welcome their hate, I mean Obama’s clearly not of that ilk of Democrat. He’s more of a kind of Bill Bradley, Paul Tsongas, Adlai Stevenson kind of Democrat.
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Waiting For That Final Nail
Posted on at 7:25 amWith John Edwards endorsement of Barack Obama, some Democrats are looking to Al Gore to finally step in and end this madness:
“The Al Gore watch starts now,” said Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Gore, who is one of the party’s superdelegates, has indicated he won’t give his endorsement until the primary contest is finished. His spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider, said yesterday that Gore had no further comment.
Obama said he has spoken to Gore “periodically” over the past several months about policies and ideas.
“I’m not really pushing for an endorsement,” Obama told reporters on his plane last night as he flew to Chicago. “I’d love to have it, but when you’ve won the Nobel Peace Prize, making an endorsement politically is maybe a step down.”
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How Selfless Of Her
Posted on at 6:50 amRick Moran argues that Hillary Clinton continues to run for the Democratic nomination for President not because she seeks the Vice-Presidency or to embolden her case for candidacy in 2012 should Obama lose but because she feels an obligation to the little girls of this country:
For all the talk of “glass ceilings” and “old boys networks” — and there are still significant barriers to professional women who seek power and influence in the political and corporate world — Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has shattered a few of those ceilings as she has elbowed her way into the oldest and most male of all networks: serious consideration for the most powerful office on the planet.
So she bows her neck and keeps charging not so much because she still has a slim chance at the nomination, but because she feels an obligation to the millions of women who are out there now and who will follow in her footsteps. She is still in it for the shining faces of teenage girls who look back at her from the audience and who see beyond the dream of becoming president and can now taste the reality of it. She is in it for the seniors who she cultivates so assiduously and who see in her perhaps a culmination of all their hopes and dreams that never materialized in their lifetime because of the barriers that Hillary has now smashed to pieces, never to be erected again.
This is not a quest for the nomination as much as it is the road to a validation of her place in history. One can hardly fault her for trying to keep faith with the millions who see her as a living icon and a harbinger of things to come. For that reason, she may decide to stay in the race until the last primary has been held so that every woman who believes in her and, more importantly, what she represents, can be heard.
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Edwards To Endorse?
Posted on May 14, 2008 at 1:30 pmMark Halperin is teasing a possible John Edwards endorsement.
UPDATE: CNN has confirmed that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama at a Michigan campaign event about an hour from now.
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Clinton Nabs Another Tennessee Super
Posted on at 10:20 am“Automatic” delegate to the Democratic National Convention, Vicki Harwell, President of the Tennessee Federation of Democratic Women,has thrown her lot in with Hillary Clinton:
“Hillary’s decisive victory in West Virginia is the latest evidence that she is the strongest candidate to take on John McCain and win back the White House,” Harwell said. “Hillary has the plans, leadership and experience to deliver real results as President.”
Harwell was an “add-on” delegate selected at a March 8th meeting of the Democratic State Executive Committee.
At the time of her selection, Harwell indicated she was “leaning towards” backing Senator Clinton but was recently quoted in the Tennessean confirming her uncommitted status while betraying a slight openness to Obama.
Harwell had received calls from the Clinton campaign soliciting her support but none from Obama. She expressed a hope that Obama was not making assumptions in his neglecting o reach out:
“I get really irritated with the media when they paint this as a choice between race and gender,” she said. “If he’s discouraged because of that, it’s a shame. A lot of our women are supporting Obama.”
Out of seventeen Democratic superdelegates from Tennessee four now support Obama, six are pledged to Clinton and the rest remain uncommitted.
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Stations Of The Cross: Obama Goes Fundie In Kentucky
Posted on May 13, 2008 at 7:49 amBack during last year’s Yuletide political season, Mike Huckabee took a fair bit of grief for allegedly inserting a subtle appeal to his fundamentalist faith in a television.
Fast-forwarding to the present, we find Barack Obama having essentially clinched the nomination locked in a struggle to prove his electability. How does he choose to go after the Appalachian Kentucky voters whose ethnic brethren have so rejected his candidacy?
Doug Forrester has scanned in some very interesting mailers the Obama camp is circulating in Kentucky in hopes of appealing to men and women of faith.
This Congressman’s Dead Anyway
Posted on May 11, 2008 at 10:11 pmHerman Wang reports that Rep. Lincoln Davis doesn’t think it is the role of a superdelegate to commit to a candidate before the convention.
Davis has apparently taken his belief quite seriously reportedly rebuffing an invitation for a sit down with Hillary Clinton:
“He says that’s not true,” U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., told The Daily News about Davis’ refusal to meet with Clinton. “But that’s on the front page of The Hill. I told him he might as well go ahead and endorse Barack (Obama), because once Hillary sees that he’s a dead man anyway.”
More at Silence is Golden.
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Michelle Obama To Headline Nashville Fundraiser Thursday
Posted on at 8:15 pmKen Whitehouse breaks the news that First Lady-in-waiting and vigorous opponent of a “dream ticket”, Michelle Obama, will be headlining an afternoon fundraiser right here in Music City for her husband’s presidential campaign on Thursday, May 15th. The shindig is set to be held at the home of Cyndee and Jerry Martin.
Mr. Martin, an attorney at the firm of Barrett, Johnston & Parsley, previously served as David Briley’s finance chairman for his 2007 Mayoral run and in 2002 was the campaign finance director for Jim Cooper’s inaugural 5th District Congressional campaign.
The Appalachian Sensation
Posted on May 8, 2008 at 2:03 pmHillary Clinton has made her strongest electoral showings in the counties and precincts located in the region of the country known as Appalachia. This does not bode well for Barack Obama in Kentucky and West Virginia:
Appalachia didn’t budge. [Clinton] is going to absolutely blow [Obama] out of the water in West VA and KY. Whether that is enough to get her back in the race is another matter altogether.
The Tangled Webb Of Vice-Presidential Politics
Posted on at 7:49 amWith his nomination all but certain, Sharon Cobb has taken to pondering who might be the best Vice-Presidential choice for Illinois Senator:
What about Joe Biden, who has more foreign affairs experience than any of the original people running for President with the exception of Chris Dodd? Would an older, established white man with a plethora of experience help Barack more than Hillary or John? Biden or Dodd might make a good balance, though I’m not sure either would benefit Barack in the states where he needs help. On the other hand, both men have been fully vetted as well.
Bill Richardson, anyone? Aside from his experience in negotiating with North Korea and other troubled spots, he could be most helpful in picking up the Hispanic vote, a group where Obama is relatively weak. Hillary is strong with Hispanics, so she would help there as well.
What do you think? Who do you think should be Barack’s running mate?
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Harold Ford, Jr. Calls For Democratic Unity Ticket
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 8:08 amFormer Congressman and Senate candidate, Harold Ford, Jr., now chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, suggests that being a “numbers guy” makes him a believer in the formidable nature of a joint Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton ticket. GoldnI translates what Ford is really saying:
“I’m aware that this is pretty much over and that Obama is going to win, but I can’t say that because that would piss off my DLC buddies. On the other hand, I can’t come out for Clinton because that would royally piss off the Memphis base that I need to support me if I ever run for office again. So I’ll just keep pushing for this ‘joint ticket’ so I won’t have to publicly decide.”
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As American As A Taco: TNGOP Praises Cinco De Mayo
Posted on May 5, 2008 at 11:42 amThe Tennessee Republican Party celebrates Cinco De Mayo as a reminder of the importance of protecting a peoples’ culture:
“Celebrating ethnic and cultural pride within the context of the American story is as American as baseball, apple pie - and tacos - and Cinco de Mayo has grown in popularity here as more Mexicans have decided to join the American story,” said Robin Smith, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. “We honor the national pride displayed on this day of festivity and the importance of protecting a nation’s heritage and culture in order to ensure its ongoing freedom.”
Of course, the Tennessee Republican Party hasn’t always been so high on expressions of ethnic and cultural pride.
In a press release, which was uniformly derided by Tennesseans of all political persuasions two months ago, the Tennessee Republican Party chastised Barack Obama for wearing ethnic garb when visiting a foreign land and chided his parent’s decision to give a young Barack Obama an Arabic middle name.
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Ties That Bind
Posted on April 29, 2008 at 3:55 pmBrendan Loy discusses the complete and utter repudiation of Jeremiah Wright by Barack Obama.
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Superdelegate Bredesen Leaning Towards Clinton?
Posted on April 28, 2008 at 8:32 amI had always got the feeling that Gov. Bredesen was, at root, an Obama man. Jackson Baker reports differently:
Bredesen is widely believed to be tilting toward Senator Clinton, and he has acknowledged in the past that most of his advisors lean that way.
If he is a Clinton man, he would certainly seem to be a reluctant one, if this 2005 interview is any indication.
Gore Wants No Part Of Any Future Administration
Posted on April 25, 2008 at 11:21 amBarack Obama may be publicly declaring that he will attempt to involve Al Gore in his administration but Gore will have none of it:
“I don’t intend to be a part of any administration,” he revealed. “I’ve been Vice President, I ran for President twice, so I don’t have any interest in being a cabinet member.
“I think my best use is in building grass-roots support.
I will, of course, give advice to whoever asks me for advice on this and will work to help but not in a formal way.”
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Phil Has The Power
Posted on April 24, 2008 at 11:12 amJohn Rodgers links up to The Nation who accuses our honorable Governor of hypocrisy for complaining out the drawn out divisiveness of the Democratic primary when he could so easily step up and endorse a candidate and help put an end to the madness:
Here’s a thought: if Bredesen is worried about how a nasty, prolonged contest is damaging the Democratic Party and wants to bring it to a conclusion, why doesn’t he, as a prominent superdelegate, endorse a candidate? Superdelegates, after all, have the power to end this race now if they wanted to.
Phil’s Veep Angle
Posted on at 10:28 amJeff Woods thinks there is no doubt that our Governor is angling for a spot on the Democratic ticket:
Bredesen seems pretty serious about landing the veep spot. He’s remained uncommitted even after Clinton swept Tennessee’s primary. And unsolicited, he’s offered himself as a party leader to settle the nomination fight, making the rounds of TV talk shows to propose a superdelegate convention in June. He holds obvious advantages for the Democrats as a Southern governor.
If Bredesen does want the job why not step out and endorse Obama? Wouldn’t that help his cause more than sitting on the sidelines?
Now would be the perfect time. It would have the effect of muting the John Tanner endorsement of Hillary yesterday and it would allow Obama and Gore operatives play up speculation about an Al Gore endorsement of Obama to reporters writing the story. A good little bump for Obama and chit that Bredesen can cash out in his Veep interview.
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The Audacity Of Waiting His Turn
Posted on April 23, 2008 at 5:24 pmGoldnI didn’t appreciate the advice Barack Obama was given by Harold Ford, Jr. on MSNBC and asks the undercover, Clinton supporting, former Congressman to imagine this Presidential campaign had it been him instead of Obama facing the Clinton machine:
Can you imagine what would happen if Harold were in Obama’s shoes? Can you imagine how Hillary would attack him? “Well, we all know that Harold Ford has no experience. He was only 26 when he was elected to Congress, what did he do before that? Not much. He doesn’t have enough experience. Oh, and he’s unelectable. Don’t ask us why, but he is.” And if the Jeremiah Wright brouhaha is any indicator, Harold would probably be asked to reject and denounce the vast majority of his family members.
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Ford In The Bag For HRC
Posted on at 12:31 pmMatt Pulle asserts that after watching Harold Ford, Jr. on MSNBC last night there can be no doubt about where the “neutral” Ford stand in the Democratic primary contest:
Harold Ford continues to have trouble cloaking his jealousy of Barack Obama, whose progressive, smart candidacy is everything that Ford’s run for Senate was not. Yesterday on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough asked Ford if he would have beaten Corker if he could have outspent him as much as Obama did Hillary Clinton in Pennsyltucky. At first, Ford tried to duck the question graciously, but then Scarborough needed to ask it only one more time for the former Memphis congressman to take the bait: Ford snidely replied if he had more money he could have made up those 25,000 votes, saying that as matter-of-factly as if he were reciting the alphabet.
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The Game Is The Game
Posted on at 7:14 amBrendan Loy begs to differ with those folks who say that Hillary Clinton would have had this nomination sown up if the Democratic primaries were winner take all delegate contests like the Republicans and the electoral college:
If the Democrats ran a winner-take-all system, both candidates would have had vastly different strategies. Obama would have spent less time, energy and money in caucus states where he knew he could rack up big delegate margins, and focused more on the “big states.” Among other things, it’s entirely possible he would have won Texas (since he would have been paying zero attention to Ohio or Rhode Island under this scenario).
You can’t divorce the results from the process. And anyway, the process is what it is. The Democrats don’t have a winner-take-all system like the Republicans and the Electoral College do. They have a proportional system, because they decided to have a proportional system. You don’t change the rules in the middle of the game — or spin them into some alternate reality. They are what they are. And Obama’s gonna win.
Hillary Clinton Projected As The Winner Of The Pennsylvania Primary
Posted on April 22, 2008 at 7:59 pmABC, Fox, NBC and CBS have called the Keystone state for Senator Hillary Clinton. Of course, now we wait for margin to be revealed so that the pundits can tell us whether the win was really a “win.”
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No Mas Demográficas Ventaja?
Posted on at 12:21 pmBruce Barry surveys the lay of the land on the day of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary and makes some predictions:
The real prediction question, of course, is not just what happens tonight, but what happens tomorrow. How big a win tonight is a win? The problem for Clinton is that after Pennsylvania, there are no more Pennsylvanias, which is to say no more big delegate-rich states where she has the built-in demographic edge. The remaining contests—North Carolina and Indiana in two weeks, and then Kentucky, West Virginia, Oregon, South Dakota, Puerto Rico and let’s not forget Guam—are a mixed bag: Obama figures to take NC, OR, and SD; Clinton grabs WV, KY and PR; leaving IN as a tossup. After today, it’s hard to foresee a plausible significant aggregate effect on the spread of delegates or popular votes. Unless Clinton pulls out of nowhere a whopper of a win tonight in the 15-20 point range, giving superdelegates some seriously irritated bowels, what’s her path to the nomination? It may not be over tonight, but I’m thinking it’s over on May 6.
No built in demographic advantages past Pennsylvania for Hillary? What about Puerto Rico? Remember Nevada?
Matching Fund System In Need Of Reform
Posted on at 10:41 amRick Hasen declares the voluntary public financing system for Presidential candidates on its last legs and in desperate need of reform:
The voluntary public financing system for U.S. presidential candidates, established in the post-Watergate era, is in its last throes. As it collapses, presidential candidates have been calculating—and recalculating–the advantages of opting in or out.
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has accused Sen. Barack Obama, the likely (though not certain) Democratic presidential nominee, of going back on his word; according to McCain, Obama had said he would participate in the public financing program in the general election. Democrats, meanwhile, have gone to federal court for permission to sue McCain for improperly trying to opt out of the public financing system during the primary season, after previously opting in.
It is true that both McCain and Obama have been trying to have it both ways on the public financing question. But the fault lays not so much with them as with Congress, which has failed to update the public financing system to make it a viable alternative to privately-run campaigns, and to the President and the members of the Senate, who have failed to break a deadlock over a controversial nominee to the Federal Election Commission.
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Smelling What Barack Is Cooking
Posted on April 21, 2008 at 1:41 pmFrom Marc Ambinder:
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have taped segments that will air on WWE’s Raw tonight on the USA Network. (An offer for Clinton and Obama to settle their differences in the ring was not accepted, presumably because both candidates thought the idea of a double count out ending was hackneyed.) In theory, the WWE audience — young men — would be for Obama if they identify as a Democrat.
Al Gore Gives McCain A Boost
Posted on at 9:42 amThrough his spokeswoman Kalee Kreider, Al Gore states that John McCain is just as trustworthy on the signature issue in his portfolio as is Barack Obama:
“Former Vice President Gore thinks that both candidates are very strong. Both of them have offered plans to address the climate crisis … as has Senator McCain,” she said.
I asked Kreider why she is praising McCain, considering that Bush lied in 2000 about his intent to deal with climate change. Here’s her response.
The key threshold issue for most NGO’s and people working on climate, ourselves included are: Does the policymaker, work, support, vote in favor of, introduce legislation for mandatory reductions in pollution or not. McCain has, Bush has not.
The Revolt Of The Elites
Posted on at 7:19 amDavid Sparks wonders in the Boston Globe whether the pragmatism of the superdelegates will lead them to conclude that the potential benefits of nominating Barack Obama are not worth the stretch:
Assume Hillary Clinton will be viewed as a northern state liberal: a combination of John Kerry and Al Gore. The states-won distribution between Gore and Kerry was identical except for New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Iowa. If Clinton starts the race as the Kerry/Gore prototype in the battleground states, she will probably run a very close election with McCain, just like Bush-Gore and Bush-Kerry. The problem for her is that both Gore and Kerry lost. The question is: Which states can she flip and why?
Obama is harder to profile. The enthusiasm for his campaign, his appeal among younger voters, suburban independents, and African-Americans prompts some analysts to suggest that not only can’t he be categorized, but that his presence on the ballot against McCain will throw 40 states into play instead of the traditional handful. However, the split between Whites and African-Americans in choosing between Obama and Clinton has been stark, now fueled by Obama’s recent comments about small town America. The flipside of the Obama potential is the potential backlash against the first African-American nominee…
…In Clinton, the superdelegates have a candidate who fits their recent mold and the last two elections have been very close. This year is a bad year for Republicans. Just a slight shift from the Gore-Kerry level would give her the victory. In Obama they have a new model candidate and the potential for a coalition of voter groups and states which break from the Gore-Kerry model.
Superdelegates are the most practical individuals going to the Democratic Convention. Practical people don’t like to gamble much in their decision-making. The superdelegates have to ask themselves how much they want to roll the dice.
The Candidacy That Rap Built?
Posted on at 6:20 amThe day after Wednesday’s Democratic Debate, Richard Thompson didn’t catch the Jay-Z reference when Barack Obama figuratively brushed the old politics of Hillary Clinton off his shoulder. Thompson saw it as reminiscent of Mayor Willie Herenton’s 2007 mayoral campaign slogan “Brush the haters off.”
Either way, the question begs to be asked: Is convergence of politics and hip-hop here indicative of something larger? Is hip-hop responsible for transforming the American culture in a way that made the rise of Barack Obama possible where it would have otherwise been unthinkable?
Sure, some say that the appropriation of hip-hop culture by white suburbia actually confirms and strengthens the stereotypes about blacks which seem to allow advancement by African Americans in art, music and sports but not law, medicine and politics but would the America of 1980 embraced Obama? The America of 1992? 2000? What is different now as opposed to then?
After all, it is not just white teenagers who dress, talk and walk like their mentors in rap videos but their is a subtler, less visible influence. White Americans in their thirties and forties grew up on MTV and listening to hip-hop. They may not make a great big deal about it, they may not wear the baggy pants nor adopt the ghetto patois but the culture is still embraced on some level. Put simply, the young are aren’t so young anymore.
Yes, Obama appeals to those in or right out of college who may or may not vote but hip-hop is older than that. Hip-hop began as an art form some thirty years ago. White men with advanced degrees wearing suits and ties still remember the soundtrack of their youth and much of it was hip-hop based and may even be programmed in their IPods to this day.
Barack Obama may have seemed to have been keeping his “blackness” at a distance in the initial stages of this campaign but after he refused to throw his pastor Jemimah Wright completely under the bus for comments some saw as anti-white and anti-American, after he took the opportunity not to run away from his pastor or racial issues but to paint his candidacy as the logical extension of the civil rights movement, this can no longer be said.
Something has changed fundamentally in American culture to create fertile ground for a candidate like Obama. Is it hip-hop?
Jim Cooper Adds Obama Student Coordinator To His Stable
Posted on April 18, 2008 at 1:22 pmZach Marshall, the Tennessee State Coordinator of Students for Obama has accepted a position with Congressman Jim Cooper of the Fightin’ 5th District. Effective May 1st, he will pass his duties as State Coordinator to his Deputy State Coordinator, Griffin Knight. From an email:
I joined the campaign over a year ago, and am amazed at the level of participation and interest on high school and college campuses across the state, and am excited as to what the fall will have in store at not only the student level, but in terms of activity throughout Tennessee. One of the great perks of working for Senator Obama has been the opportunity to work with many of the amazing people I have met along the way, and as I move on to DC, I hope to remain in contact with all of you.
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Democratic Differences In Media Mirror May Appear Larger Than They Are
Posted on at 11:53 amSay Uncle on the difference between the two Democratic candidates for President:
At this point, the two differ on their views about as much as two guys on death row have differing opinions about the death penalty.
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Post Politics: 9 April 2008
Posted on April 11, 2008 at 2:52 pmIndependent candidate for Congress in District 9, Jake Ford, accuses the Commercial Appeal of “journalistic terrorism” in its reporting on statements he made about who is racially qualified to represent the district.
Much has been made of a Sen. Roy Herron bill which would give a state board the power to determine how the Bible is to be taught in public school. Catherine McTamaney argues that it is not the biblical aspect that is new here, but the level at which the state gets involved.
The LA Times reports on how those snappy little political YouTube ads are produced for the Web.
The Politico argues that Hillary Clinton’s management of her campaign may reflect badly on her ability to run a government.
Rules have been adopted in Metro which allow city workers to continue to spray for mosquitoes in an area even if property owners object or pedestrians are present.
Democratic Leadership Council founder Al From wonders whether Barack Obama can change the electoral map with his refreshing new appeals to voters across traditional divides.
Ilissa Gold reports that plans to move the Bellevue library to a new site at an improved Bellevue Mall are well underway.
Andy Sher reports that revenue shortfalls have put state worker pay raises in jeopardy.
Some state officials see the federal government’s plan to overhaul the country’s financial regulatory systems as an intrusion on their powers, says Stateline.
Photos of the “Flying Spaghetti Monster” statue outside a Crossville courthouse. The Spaghetti monster is a popular symbol among atheists and agnostics used to illustrate the unlikelihood of the existence of religious truth.
Breaking Bad: A new report reveals that homebuyers using mortgage brokers were often directed towards higher-interest loans.
A Vanderbilt professor releases a 74-page paper calling for Tennessee to adopt a state income tax.
One journalist notes that House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh is engaging in more raw politics as his power is threatened in the legislature.
The Amendment makes the bill: Reporter Joe White explains the concept of a “caption bill.”
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett asserts that Tennesseans are fed up with the war in Iraq and want their troops home.
Monkey Business: A delegate for Barack Obama steps down after racially interpreted remark.
Presidential candidate Mike Gravel releases yet another YouTube video where he covers Beatles tunes in a way only he can.
The Jackson Sun reports that Tennessee wildlife officers will no longer auction off weapons seized from hunters violating game laws on the courthouse steps. The weapons will instead be shipped to Nashville for sale in licensed gun shops.
The issue of trade with Colombia divides the political house of Clinton.
Where the white women at? Event coordinators for Michelle Obama make explicit their need for diversity at a campaign event.
The failure of a bill in a state house subcommittee means that the judicial selection committee may still meet in private.
The Memphis Daily News covers the battle of conservatives in the District 7 congressional primary.
A report by the Government Accountability Office in Washington exposed federal employees charging exorbitant amounts of money for Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie, lavish dinners and other questionable expenses to their government credit cards over a 15-month period.
Clarksville Online thinks a new strategy is needed to advance environmental legislation through the Tennessee Legislature.
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean invites to his home members of WIN, a bipartisan group dedicated to helping recruit, train and elect qualified women to state and local offices in Tennessee.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the smart money, at first bearish on John McCain’s prospects, is now starting to flow in.
And finally, Ken Whitehouse discusses West Tennessee Democrats on the downslope of political prominence.
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